Rank and Privilege The Military and Society in Latin America

by Rodriguez, Linda A.

• ISBN13: 9780842024334
• ISBN10: 0842024336
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Dr. Linda A. RodrÃRguez has assembled a new collection of essays that finally provides the historical context necessary to understand the Latin American military. The articles included here examine a variety of time periods and nations, from the counterinsurgency army of New Spain, to the nineteenth-century War of the Pacific, to the modern relationship between the military and development. The contributors look at the ways in which Latin America's armed forces have changed over time, and how external threats as well as internal rivalries have shaped the military. Together, these essays trace the roots of the military's power and the growth of its political influence.

Table of Contents

Introduction
International War and Government Modernization: The Military - A Case Study	p. 1
"La Causa Buena": The Counterinsurgency Army of New Spain and the Ten Years' War	p. 11
Authoritarianism and Militarism in Ecuador	p. 37
The War of the Pacific	p. 55
The South American Military Tradition: Preprofessional Armies in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Brazil	p. 71
The Armed Forces and Industrialists in Modern Brazil: The Drive for Military Autonomy, 1889-1945	p. 95
Caudillismo and Institutional Change: Manuel Odria and the Peruvian Armed Forces, 1948-1956	p. 143
The Military and Development	p. 155
The Latin American Military, Low-Intensity Conflict, and Democracy	p. 189
Military Professionalism and Nonintervention in Mexico	p. 219
Suggested Readings	p. 235
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